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National Gallery pulls all-nighter for Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers final weekend

Tickets for night-time slots on 17 January go on sale as gallery opens for 24 hours for second time in its history

The Guardian - UK · Jan 9, 2025

London Vincent Van Gogh exhibition to open through the night due to demand

The display has already become the third most popular paid exhibition in the London attraction’s history.

Evening Standard · Jan 9, 2025

Sensual surrealism, Kiefer’s delights and Gehry’s Guggenheim: the best art and architecture shows to visit in 2025

Anselm Kiefer’s homage to Van Gogh, Ithell Colquhoun’s seaside of surrealism and Gilbert & George fill the galleries, while the V&A opens its archives at the illustrious new East Storehouse

The Guardian - UK · Dec 26, 2024

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Art: Laura Cumming’s 10 best shows of 2024

Black art moved centre stage, sculpture couldn’t keep still, Francis Alÿs captured the power of child’s play – but the year belonged to Van Gogh

The Guardian - UK · Dec 22, 2024

Smartphones are an unwelcome distraction

Letters: Nonagenarian Tim Watson on why no one, including adults, should be using smartphones. And Carole Gray found her enjoyment of the Van Gogh exhibition impeded by the crowd holding up their phones to take photos

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2024

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Total Film · Dec 20, 2024

10 Foodie & Artsy Things To Do in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane This Summer Season

Silly season has officially begun! Here are our picks for the best dining and entertainment experiences to start your summer right.

Pedestrian.tv · Dec 20, 2024

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Immersive Vincent Van Gogh exhibition set to come to Scottish city

AN IMMERSIVE attraction which brings the works of Vincent Van Gogh spectacularly to life is set to come to Aberdeen ...

The National (Scotland) · Nov 26, 2024

Can Big Tech ever truly "get" Art?

Google Arts & Culture has been digitising the world’s top collections for years. Now, it’s trying to turn them into a game.

Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2024

The Observer view: how Leonardo, Van Gogh and Monet help us to transcend the gloom

Four exhibitions in London this autumn remind us that creativity and imagination are the opposite of authoritarianism

The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2024

Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers review – blockbuster portrait of a thoughtful master

Exhibition on Screen’s latest gallery documentary offers a walkthrough of the National Gallery’s winter show, complete with extras

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2024

Van Gogh’s smoking skeleton and Munch’s sickly sex-scapes: great artists’ ghoulish sides revealed

A show of unfamiliar works by the pioneers of modern art shows that they weren’t immune to the lure of darkness and horror – and that gothic is the style that never dies

The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2024

Lidia Thorpe protest reminds me of Keir Hardie’s in 1894

Brief letters: Pontypridd colliery disaster | Van Gogh worth the wait | A macabre José Saramago tale | Expertise in death

The Guardian - UK · Oct 25, 2024

French finesse can deter buffet gluttons

Brief letters: A warning sign | Queuing for Van Gogh | NHS passports | Paddington Bear’s passport | Fitting F-words for Trump

The Guardian - UK · Oct 24, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2024

National Gallery in London bans liquids after activists’ art attacks

Only baby formula, expressed milk and prescription medicines will be allowed with large bags also prohibited under new measures

The Conversation · Oct 16, 2024

Vive L’impressionnisme! at the Van Gogh Museum: a compelling, eco-conscious celebration of impressionism

Despite its corny title, Vive L’Impressionnisme!, which recently opened at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, is well worth seeing. Marking the 150th anniversary of the first impressionist exhibition, the show tells the story of how one of the movement’s founders, Claude Monet, and his contemporaries were supported by a…

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2024

Van Gogh is turning in his grave at the harsh Just Stop Oil sentence. I know, because I spoke to him

Nature was the painter’s ultimate muse, and he would have admired those seeking to protect it, says activist Nadya Tolokonnikova

The Conversation · Oct 3, 2024

Why climate activists keep targeting art galleries – despite public outcry

Two Just Stop Oil activists were recently jailed for 27 months and 20 months respectively for throwing soup at one of Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers paintings at London’s National Gallery back in October 2022. Some commentators suggested these were overly harsh sentences for a nonviolent protest, while others felt such…

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Evening Standard · Sep 30, 2024

Three Just Stop Oil activists deny ‘revenge’ soup attack on Van Gogh paintings

Stephen Simpson, 71, Mary Somerville, 77, and Phillipa Green, 24, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court

Space · Sep 30, 2024

Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' surprisingly adheres to the laws of physics, scientists find

The artist's work demonstrates an innate understanding of Kolmogorov's theory of turbulence.

The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2024

Just Stop Oil protesters deny ‘revenge’ soup attack on Van Gogh paintings

Stephen Simpson, 61, Phillipa Green, 22, and Mary Somerville, 77, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2024

Three Just Stop Oil activists charged after soup thrown at Van Gogh paintings

Incident at London’s National Gallery came just hours after other members of group jailed over similar protest

The National (Scotland) · Sep 27, 2024

Just Stop Oil throw soup over Van Gogh painting after protesters jailed

ACTIVISTS from Just Stop Oil have thrown soup over two Vincent van Gogh paintings in response to two of their members being jailed for the very same…

The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2024

Van Gogh paintings vandalized at a London gallery after 2 activists were sentenced in similar attack

A group of activists attacked a pair of paintings by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh at London’s National Gallery by throwing what appeared to be tomato soup on the artworks

The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2024

Just Stop Oil target Van Gogh’s Sunflowers hours after activists jailed for throwing soup over same painting

It came just hours after Phoebe Plummer, 23, and Anna Holland, 22, were jailed over the exact same protest in October 2022

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